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Monthly Archives: August 2017

Wine leads to some of the best things in life. That’s how I found Schoodic Mountain near Donnell Pond in Hancock County. I’ve been hiking the peaks of Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island (MDI) since the 1970s when my sons were little boys. Since MDI was the destination, for many years I was […]

Cycling is one of my favorite activities and my primary source of aerobic exercise. The older I get the more I enjoy it. A runner for almost forty years, I was compelled to quit after a knee replacement. The knee guy said that if I kept running, I’d soon be back for another one. A […]

Ron Chase

At age 70, Ron Chase is old. But, he’s not under the grass…yet. Retired from a career with the Internal Revenue Service, he has embarked on a new life as a freelance writer and tax consultant. Don’t be misled; in reality, he works a little and plays a lot. When not busy kayaking, canoeing, biking, mountain climbing and skiing, he sometimes finds time to write and assist his tax clients. A lifelong Mainer now living in Topsham, he is the recent author of The Great Mars Hill Bank Robbery, a biography of Vietnam War hero and bank robber Bernard Patterson.